Cam Adams

Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and running profitably | Cameron Adams (co-founder and CPO)

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Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): Canva is bigger than Figma and Miro and Webflow combined. You guys are generating $2.3 billion in ARR and you're profitable. You're also growing 60% year over year and it's accelerating. Cameron Adams (00:00:12): I run everyone through the culture of Canva. One of those sections is on giving away your Lego, finding joy in the other things of building a team, passing on your experience, helping other people do great writing or great product building or great engineering....

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Low-ego framing
077 --- Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): Canva is bigger than Figma and Miro and Webflow combined. You guys are generating $2.3 billion in ARR and you're profitable. You're also growing 60% year over...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny. See you soon. Lenny Rachitsky (01:02:43): All right. Bye, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. If you found this valuable, you can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or your...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
Cameron Adams (00:24:54): I don't know. It's one of those things that I don't want to quantify. I don't want to put it in a box and say this is product...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Ending
these things you're launching. What a business you've built. I feel like it's still way too under the radar, even though it's this juggernaut. Nice work, Cameron and team. Two more questions I ask everyone, where can folks find you online and how can listeners be useful to you? Cameron Adams (01:02:06): They can find me online at themaninblue.com, which is my blog that's been around for 24 years now. What was the other question? How can you- Lenny Rachitsky (01:02:15): Yeah. How can listeners be useful to you?...

The ending hands attention back to the guest's work instead of ending on the host.